From the Berliner Zeitung:
…How dangerous real music making can be was also shown on this last evening of 2024 at the State Opera. Christian Thielemann injured himself on the sharp edge of a score page during a short speech and blood flowed. Thielemann sucked his finger, informed the audience and seemed irritated for a moment…. A female fan rushed up to the maestro and handed him a handkerchief. Later, a musician gave Thielemann a plaster. Every musician knows from their own experience of hastily turning pages how painful a cut caused by a sharp edge of paper is. Incidentally, there is less risk of cuts with old scores than with digital printouts. The obligatory bouquet of flowers went to the concertmaster.
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.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Prom 37: intense contrasts thundering cannonades to personal intimacy, Antonio Pappano conducts Britten's War Requiem at the BBC Proms")
